Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Northern Restaurant, Kitchen Knife

The first time I saw the little idiot Gu Ming, I noticed his confused and wandering eyes, and fell in love with him from the bottom of my heart.In the Han language, the word "love" cannot be used between men. If I disregard these rules, I fell in love with Xiaobai the first time I saw him. Xiaobai is not tall, with fair skin, and the most prominent part of his face is dotted with light yellow freckles.Square-brained, crew-cut, not much hair, thick body hair.It may be to play the role of body hair, and I like to wear shorts most.In Beijing, a pair of twill trousers were worn from the beginning of March when the heating stopped until the end of November when the heating started.Between the lower part of the thigh and the upper part of the calf, the trousers can't cover it, and the socks can't reach it.From the outside, the yellow and white flesh is basically invisible.Xiaobai has thick eyebrows and thin eyes, and his eyes often wander, looking at the sky, the ground, the girl in a skirt walking by the corner of the street, not the teacher in the classroom, or the person talking to him.There is always an uncertain flame burning in the eyes, the sun is shining, the crowds are crowded, the flame is afraid, and it will go out with a poof.Xiaobai's eyes fascinated me, a cloud of will-o'-the-wisps, which contained inherited life, timidity, cowardice, swing, helplessness, excitement, detachment, confusion, abandonment, in short, all the characteristics of a species that will be eliminated .

I never imagined that Mona Lisa's smile, which is half-male and half-female, is pasted on the billboard at the entrance of the Yanquelou, and the punks will paint a mustache that night.I occasionally think about Xiaobai's eyes. In this aggressive, high-spirited, and progressive era, I experience confusion, helplessness and warmth with Xiaobai. With this look, I understand that we are in the same group. Then, in the summer of 1999, I drove a 2.8-liter six-cylinder Buick Regal from 1988 on Highway 287 in northern New Jersey, commuting to and from work during my summer internship.The expressway in that section has dense vegetation and beautiful mountains and rivers. There are warning signs on the side of the road, saying to be careful of deer.The specific place to work is called Franklin Lakes, large and small lakes, many of which are privately owned by aristocratic families, and outsiders can’t drive in. I heard that the lake is full of daffodils, and the children of those aristocratic families are tired of playing the piano. Yes, I beat my knee until it was red, swollen, hot and sore.

On the highway, I have never seen deer. I have seen the carcass of a deer, which is bigger than a dog and smaller than a donkey.I've often seen squirrels come and go, parked in the middle of the road, watching the oncoming traffic in bewilderment. My old Buick car crushed one. That squirrel had the most confused eyes I have ever seen. It stood very small in the traffic lane not far in front of my car. Horizontal, the beards on both cheeks exploded, and the whole body stood still.The squirrel was petrified by the car driving at high speed, and that look reminded me of Xiaobai.I glanced at the rearview mirror on the left. There was no car. I turned the wheel quickly to the left and the car entered the overtaking lane. The squirrel also dodged into the overtaking lane.

The right wheel jerked slightly, I didn't even hear a squeak, and I knew the squirrel must have been crushed to pieces under my wheel.If you are too detached, if you are more detached, you will not embark on this path.The worst thing is, if you are a little more demented, you won't dodge. Xiaobai and I were in the middle, and it was inevitable that the ending would be tragic and we would be crushed into rats. Xiaohong asked me later, Xiaobai had never looked at her directly, why was she still so attached to her, clinging to her?I didn't answer, I thought, if I were Xiaohong, if possible, I would slam on the brakes and never crush Xiaobai into a mouse.

The first time I saw Xiaobai was in the autumn of 1993. I took three bottles of Yanjing refreshing beer and half a catty of salt-fried five-spice peanuts to see him.Teacher Xiao Shao from the teaching office told me that there is an international student who has just arrived. You should go and visit him and introduce our study and living environment so that he can have full confidence in our school and our motherland. I knocked on the door of No. 204 of the North Hotel, and Xiaobai opened the door. I said, "I'm Qiushui. We'll be in the same class. I'll come to you for a beer. If you have any troubles in the future, you can talk to me."

"Oh." Xiaobai only has one cup, and a big brown bear is painted on the cup, "Winnie the Pooh. One, only one cup." Xiaobai's Chinese is very slow, but English is very fast. Like the Voice of America.I thought, bullshit. My English is dumb English, and I envy all people who can speak English well.I started memorizing dictionaries in junior high school, and read Dickens, Lawrence, and Henry Miller in the original languages ​​in high school, and Han Nanying’s English translation of Meat Futuan, but I couldn’t speak.I'm shy, I'm ashamed to hear English in my own voice.In order to maintain the literary spirit, I basically don’t look up the dictionary when I read the novel in the original language. I know a lot of words, but I don’t know how to pronounce them.Look: "She is completely immersed in a kind of gentle joy, like the rustling breeze in the spring forest, drifting out of the budding buds mistyly and cheerfully..." At that time, the physiology and hygiene class hadn't started yet, I didn't want to What kind of flowers are those English words that Lawrence mentioned, I want to see quickly, what does the forest watchman go on doing to Lady Chatterley?How do you do it?why doHow did it feel?In the depths of Lady Chatterley's legs, besides Qingfenglangyuehe and various flowers in "Songs of Chu", what structure is there?

"You use a glass, I drink directly from a beer bottle." I said.Xiaobai didn't have an opener either. I looked around and saw a south-facing window with a brick cement structure.I put the beer bottle cap on the edge of the window sill with my left hand, and with the iron sand palm of my right hand, I exerted force instantly, and the bottle cap smashed to the ground, leaving only shallow marks on the edge of the window sill, and no beer splashed out from the bottle.Xin Ni's bottle-opening skill is to pry with molars.Later, during the scientific research practice, Xin Ning and I chose one of the two to enter the gynecological tumor laboratory. Professor Chen, the senior gynecologist, picked me because he had seen my iron sand palm bottle opening skills: "Qiu Shui is ruthless, flexible, and knows how to use tools. Forget it, you don’t need molars to raise cells.” Xin Ni went to the pharmacology laboratory, and used dogs and rabbits for experiments. First, the dogs and rabbits were made to have high blood pressure, and then antihypertensive drugs were used to see the physiological changes.Afterwards, Xin Ning grinned, revealing his strong and shiny big white molars. I always looked at them carefully, suspecting that shreds of dog meat and rabbit meat were hidden in the crevices of his molars every day, and I was envious.

"The window sill will be broken. Do you need to pay compensation to the school?" Xiaobai took a sip of the Yanjing beer I poured him, and did not toast. The first sentence was a worried inquiry. "Is there a clause in the contract you signed not to use the window sill as a bottle opener?" "No. No contract." "When you arrive in China, when you arrive in Beijing, you have to learn to make do with many things, especially in the first few months, when tools are not in order, no one knows anyone, and you have to be creative. The window sill can be used as an opener, the door frame can be crushed walnuts, and the door beam can be used as a horizontal bar. This, people who often live in the dormitory, Xin Ni and Hopu are both experts. Also, no matter what the regulations say is not allowed to do or what to do, if you want to do it, do it on a small scale first, and see the reaction of the leaders and the masses , It’s all right, not too many people died, and then continue to do it blatantly, China’s reform and opening up is like this, and it’s a small step towards prosperity and democracy.”

"Oh. The wine is light." Xiaobai probably didn't understand, so he took another sip, then climbed onto the bed, stood on the edge of the bed against the wall, and continued to fix an American flag to the wall with tacks. "Drink more if you don't like it." "Straight or not?" Xiaobai was holding the American flag, red, red, blue and blue, with stars and stripes, very beautiful in form. "It should be said that it is flat or not. If you have difficulty in Chinese, we can speak English." "Fair or not?" "flat." In Xiaobai's room, there is a bed, a table, a bookcase, a pair of sofas, a separate bathroom, and a pair of large boxes brought by Xiaobai. The flight signs in English are posted on the boxes: CA986 San Francisco to Beijing.I was sitting on the sofa, drinking beer from a bottle, and Xiaobai climbed up and down, drinking from a brown bear cup while packing things.

Some colorful foreign books are basically medical books, both basic and clinical, such as "Physiology", "Pathology", "Atlas of Anatomy", "Pharmacology", "His Internal Medicine", "Kerman's Surgery", etc. " and so on, standing on the bookshelf, the title of the book can only be read from the side by twisting the neck.Coming closer, the books smelt of wood, unlike ours, which smelt of ink. There are two photo frames on the table, one large and one small, and the photo is sandwiched between two pieces of thick crystal glass, supported by two thin stainless steel bars on the left and right sides of the lower edge.I don't have a picture frame.My girlfriend has a framed photo of the two of us and her parents. There are three fat people in their family, and I am a thin person. I smile enviously, as if I hope that I will become a fat person one day.My girlfriend's picture frame is plastic, two thin pieces of plastic sandwich the photo, surrounded by gold paint, with four words raised on the frame: fond memories.In Xiaobai's big photo frame, there are a man and a woman. The man wears glasses and is tall, while the woman does not wear glasses and is short.The background is sea water and clean buildings by the sea, emerald green and bright yellow, like fruit candy, so clean that you can tell that it is decadent capitalism.

"The one on the left is my father, and the one on the right is my mother. My father also graduated from Renhe Medical College, and my mother plays the piano." Xiaobai said. I later learned that Papa Gu is a legend of Renhe. He gets the highest grade in every subject and does not give anyone else a chance to get the first place.I caught up with Professor Wang of the Department of Internal Medicine to catch up with the Cultural Revolution, and went to Inner Mongolia. I didn’t read a single book for five years. Dare to endorse in front of Papa Gu.In the early 1980s, Papa Gu felt that people in China were really bullied. A man who spent his entire life as a doctor and Wu Jieping seemed to be inferior to a bad driver who drove a Toyota Crown, and a woman who spent her entire life as a doctor and Lin Qiaozhi seemed inferior to him. A foreign-related hotel waiter wearing a cheongsam with pubic hair on top.So Papa Gu went to New York through the introduction of a Taiwanese professor, and when he arrived at Kennedy Airport, he had twenty dollars in his pocket.When he first arrived in the United States, he couldn't be a doctor and had to eat, so Papa Gu became a black Chinese medicine doctor.I bought a box of silver needles, read acupuncture books for three days, had a day on eight layers of newspapers, one day on my own arm, and half a day on Gu’s mother’s arm, and then started in Chinatown near Bowery Street in Lower New York City. To stab someone's arm.Three years later, the "World Journal" called Gu's father Shenzhen Gu, who was on the same level as Baozi Liu, Shaved Guo, and Big Nailsun. Wherever the shop opened, there would be traffic jams, chaos, and a decline in public security.When Xiaobai grows up, he gets sleepy when he looks at serious things, and his eyes light up when he mentions playing.Papa Gu thinks that his seeds are fine, but the problem must be the soil. There is no setback education in the United States, and children don’t know what it means to endure hardship. They have never had a cold. If they get up in the morning and go to school and feel struggling, the law requires a psychiatrist.Papa Gu packed and sent Xiaobai back to Renhe, Beijing, and handed it to his former classmate, Professor Wang, saying that it is easier to support people by studying medicine. Nine times, if he didn't read at all, he would be spanked.Professor Wang Da said, definitely.It was Xiaobai's first time to take a needle and take blood from a vein, as if he was holding a butcher's knife that weighed two catties and weighed one foot long. The disabled mistake, seeing Xiaobai's eyes, said he heard pigs screaming outside the window and the north wind blowing outside the door, desperately begging the nurses around to close the windows and doors that were already closed.Xin Ning said, Xiaobai, don’t be nervous, it’s very simple, venous blood collection is like playing with a chopping knife, just like playing “chopping knife and cutting fat” on the mud floor after it rained when I was a child, imagine the patient’s arm as being on the wet ground Drawn fat.Xiaobai said that he never played chopping knife when he was a child. He drove a go-kart. He went to Tango Woods to listen to Beethoven’s "Violin Concerto in D Major" in an open-air concert. When he went to the supermarket to buy meat, he cut it and frozen it in the freezer. put away.After the internship, Xiaobai also became famous, and like Gan Yan, he was valued by the brothers and sisters who were residents.If the patient always asks to see old professors and great experts unreasonably, take Gan Yan, whose expression is like a broken mountain and whose upper body is like a whiteboard, to pretend to be.If the patient always asks for continued treatment unreasonably, and stays on the hospital bed when he recovers, which is a waste of national medical resources, bring Xiaobai here and tell the patient that Dr. Gu will draw blood for you tomorrow, do bone marrow puncture and lumbar spinal puncture, and Blood gas test, and at the same time said loudly in the ward: "Doctor Gu, take a look, is there not much local anesthetic left in our ward?" Compared with Gu's father, according to my mother's words, Xiaobai is like a weasel preying on mice , one wave is not as good as one wave, one generation is not as good as one generation, it's all like this.I am indeed not as good as my mother, I can't speak Mongolian, there is no shadow of a wolf in my eyes, I can't drink 68-degree horse pole wine, and if I drink too much, I can't sing "In the blue sky, white clouds are floating, and the horses are under the white clouds." Running, holding the whip in all directions, where is my hometown."Our professors always say the same thing, their grade 58 students are not as good as those who graduated before liberation, those who graduated from grade 80 are not as good as their grade 58 students, and our grade 90 graders are not as good as those who graduated from grade 80.Another example is Xin Ni.Xin Ning said that his grandpa was the best and most like the Japanese. He attended the Japanese military academy in Manchuria and Mongolia before the liberation. He had basically forgotten his Chinese since he was in junior high school for eight years. The shameless argument is that the essence of Chinese culture after the Han and Tang Dynasties is in Japan, and China has long been alienated and forgotten, and there is no such thing as a big man who jokes about life and death and indulges in wine and sex.Father Xin is much worse. His Japanese level can’t even touch Grandpa’s heels, but Liurendanhu, dyed yellow hair, net name Xiaowaist Sunflower, can barely chat in Japanese on MSN, and even dated Japanese widow Kuroki Junko.When I arrived in Xinyi, I was only interested in Japanese porn, and watched everything, including students, nurses, and white-collar beauties.Man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, man and beast, woman and beast, one man and several women, one woman and several men, several men and Several women, wait.Xin Ning said, look at people’s sexual fantasies, don’t blame me if you don’t know Japanese, little high school students, little nurses, and little white-collar workers don’t speak Japanese when they do indecent things. They lick their upper lip, lower lip, and Other people's lips don't say a word serious, humming.After a long time, Xin Ning complained to me, it’s broken, my brain has gone wrong, now I see nurses in the hospital always think of Japanese porn, nurse hats, white coats, shoes, socks can disappear in my mind in an instant, and then Just a naked nurse, tongue licking the upper lip, licking the lower lip, and then licking my lips.I thought about it and said, if you think about it this way, the nurses in our hospital are all revolutionary comrades, descendants of Liu Hulan, orphans of martyrs, not Japanese imperialists, let’s see if it works. In short, the genetic history of human beings is a history of degeneration.From a broader perspective of time and space, Confucius said that the era of Yao, Shun and Yu was an era in which heterosexual saints and homosexual artists traveled everywhere.From the present point of view, the ancients five thousand years ago should have been half-human and half-god. In terms of moral quality and physical quality, they were not on the same level as us.Xiaobai, me, and Xin Ni are all proof. In Xiaobai's other smaller photo frame, there is a girl with her chin resting on her right hand, smiling with red lips and white teeth, short hair, blown by a hair dryer.The pink soft light in the photo shows that the girl's fleshy face is very round, and she looks a bit like Guan Zhilin.I thought, the United States is good, the light that shines on people's faces is different.I later learned that this kind of soft light photo is called art photo.Later, Xiaohong met the owner of a studio named Milou Studio, and also took this kind of artistic photos, saying that it is to preserve youth on paper, and when she has a daughter, she can prove to her that mothers are more beautiful than daughters. Human genetic history, It is a history of degradation.A set of more than ten photos, black and white photos, with a yellowish tone, the little braised pork is heavily made up, the mouth looks small, the eyes are lost, helpless, like a young prostitute.The little braised pork asked me if I wanted to pick one.The one that looked most like a child prostitute had been picked by her father, and the one that looked least like a child prostitute had been picked by Xiao Bai, who was already her boyfriend at the time. I said no. "Your girlfriend?" I pointed to the photo and asked Xiaobai. "Girlfriend. My mother's piano student, and I practice piano together since we were very young. She sits on the left side of the piano bench and I sit on the right side of the piano bench. That is to say, she sits on my left side and I sit on her right side." "It's not a girlfriend. The photos are placed like this. When other girls see it, they will easily misunderstand and block your chance." My girlfriend said to me when she saw Xiaobai for the first time and knew about his father's legend and that Xiaobai came from the United States. The short girls in the class will be unlucky and will be harassed.I said, Xiaobai looks quite honest, he is not tall, white and obedient.My girlfriend said, you look pretty honest with your glasses on. "It's better this way. My dad wants me to study hard, read "Internal Medicine" nine times, and be like Professor Wang, a stupid person who works hard." "your Chinese is good." "I didn't go abroad until I finished elementary school. I used to play with some children from the Conservatory of Music on the other side of Heping Street. My mother teaches piano in the Conservatory of Music. But I haven't said it for a long time, and it's blunt." Xiaobai said. Hearing the piano, I looked at my fingers.My fingers are long and the span between the little finger and the thumb is more than 25 cm.The primary school teacher didn't know that I was short of three, so I told my mother to let him learn the piano, otherwise it would be a waste of talent.My mother said, we put a piano in our house, and the mouse couldn't get in the house if it turned sideways, the piano?Our factory manager has never seen it.Later, my mother bought me a harmonica.But I have a bad stomach. When I play the harmonica, I get stomach ache after eating the saliva from the previous few days, so I basically don’t play it.After I grew up, I was still tone-deaf, and I was still in awe of music but knew nothing about it. I had no resistance to girls who could sing and dance, and I felt inferior in front of them.I am infinitely envious of those elegant boys who are good at whistling, singing, playing the piano and dancing. They eat a bowl of stewed stew while it is hot. Become a princess, the notes produced by the fingers are the extension of the fingers, directly untie the bra and panties of the princess soul, focus on the sensitive points and repeatedly tease.Later, my sister gave birth to a son who inherited my slender fingers.The house in the Bay Area of ​​California is big, and my sister wants to buy a piano for my nephew.My mother said, it’s better to buy two kitchen knives, and then buy a chopping board, with a kitchen knife in each hand, which can also be hammered and practiced, chopping pork and leeks, which is practical and saves money. My nephew shouted, I want a kitchen knife, I want a kitchen knife, I don't want a piano.My sister gave my mother a nasty look. "It's quite convenient to live here." I began to introduce, "There is an Aozhiguang Supermarket to the north of Dahua Cinema, which has all kinds of small things for food and drink. It is diagonally opposite the hotel you are staying in. Wear it, go to Xiushui Market, There are all kinds of fake brands, cheap, and occasionally you can find genuine ones. Processing with supplied materials, 102 sets of materials are made, 100 pieces are shipped abroad according to the contract, and the remaining two pieces flow into the country. To Xiushui. Both Xin Ni and Wei Yan will recognize this kind of genuine product, and Wei Yan will even bargain the price, let her go with you, and you won’t suffer. But after buying clothes, she will hint to you that you should buy her the one from the French Grand Moulin. Bread, there is a shop next to Xiushui. There are also many small shops on Dongdan Street, you can go shopping if you like. Xin Ni said that it is best to go shopping at 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. White-collar girls are all off work and shopping hand in hand. You can go shopping from store to store. But don’t stare at people from the front for too long like Xin Ni, be careful of girls calling out, smelly hooligans. Then the police will come out, and if you don’t show your American passport in time, you may be taken to the police station. You can look at it from behind. According to Xin Ning’s words, no one cares about hair, shoulders, buttocks, and calves. Moreover, there are many more girls with good-looking backs than front faces. Living near the hospital, two points are the best Well, one, warm, the patient is afraid of the cold, the heating in the hospital is the earliest and the best. Two, it is convenient to eat, always prepare food for the surgeon, and the cafeteria has meals from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm. In the cafeteria, there are wontons, pork and green onions at ten o'clock, which are delicious. Magnolia has private collections of seaweed and shrimp skins, we can grab them together and put them in wonton soup.Don't be afraid of his barking, Eucommia's voice is much bigger than that of Magnolia officinalis.If Magnolia wants to yell, Eucommia will yell, "Hopu, what are you arguing about? If you make any noise, you will be killed."If you want to play, come to our dormitory, on the sixth floor of the Basic Institute, and you must learn mahjong quickly.Tennis can be played in Courtyard No. 9, and badminton can be played in each courtyard of Renhe Hospital. " "Listen to you, Xin Ni is supposed to be a bad person?" Xiao Bai asked. "Xin Ni is a good person." I replied.The beer hurts the kidneys, so I go to the bathroom in the small white room.Damn, Xiaobai's bathroom is really big, it's more than ten square meters, you can urinate horizontally, vertically, turn around and then continue urinating. I watched the urine splash a thick layer of foam, thicker than the foam of beer, and I thought, why does beer go in and out of the body? I grew up with an inverted urinal.More than 100 people in our alley share a toilet of 10 square meters.I cook rice, wash dishes, and sweep the floor to leave ashes.My mother said, the urinal will always fall down, right?It's not clean, save it for tomorrow.Since then, emptying the urinal has become my sole responsibility.I carried a five-liter urinal, which was made of enamel, with three huge goldfish printed on the outer wall and an inexplicable lotus flower printed on the cover.I walked through the huge yard, I dodged bicycles, I dodged chasing and playing children, I rushed to the entrance of the alley, I saw the grass and trees moistened by excrement and urine growing vigorously near the toilet, I lifted the lid of the urinal, I Seeing the twenty-four words written in chalk on the wall of the toilet, "It's cold and the ground freezes, you have to urinate into a pit to prevent slipping and falling, and it's hygienic and civilized." I quickly and steadily poured urine into the urinal. Try not to splash to the side of Uncle Liu, who was squatting and reading yesterday's "Beijing Evening News", persevering, defecating silently, I withdrew from my body, and I took a long breath.I complete all the activities in one breath, since I was a child, I didn't know the smell of the urinal.Later, I found that my vital capacity was 4,500 milliliters, and I had good long-distance running endurance. I never felt suffocated at 3,000 meters. I also found that my sense of smell is not sensitive. Compared with public toilets, every girl smells fragrant in my nose.These are the benefits of pouring the urinal from an early age. In Xiaobai's bathroom of more than ten square meters, I didn't find the uncle holding the "Beijing Evening News". I urinate freely, and then put my little brother in my crotch without haste.I think of Uncle Liu who was reading the "Beijing Evening News" in the toilet. He always insisted on reading the whole newspaper, and tore down the good articles that he thought should be preserved or given to the grandchildren. I learned from Xin Ning To sum it up, the biggest difference between Xiaobai and me is the difference between a five-liter urinal and a ten-square-meter toilet.